I usually launch Calmira by using the setting shell=c:\calmira\calmira.exe in my SYSTEM.INI file. There exist times however, when, for various reasons, I would prefer starting Windows 3.1 the good, old way, i.e. by launching the Program Manager. The only way to do this, AFAIK, is to remark out the line mentioned above (;shell=c:\calmira\calmira.exe} and enter this in SYSTEM.INI: shell=c:\windows\progman.exe Does anybody out there know if there exists any way that I have a "welcome screen", while booting windows, prompting me to choose between launching Windows via Program Manager or launching windows via Calmira? I suspect that perhaps something like that could be achieved by preparing a special batch file that would be loaded in AUTOEXEC.BAT before the c:\windows\win line. However, I do not consider myself very keen in writing such files... Anybody wishing to help?

If you have lines like this in your config: menuitem = CD, menuitem = USB&CD menuitem = NOCD,NO menudefault= NOCD,30 when it boots it sets a var called CONFIG. You can use that to cause your autoexec to make the appropriate jumps. For instance, I have: IF "%config%"=="CD" LH \util\MSCDEX.exe /D:oemcd001 /L:R You would probably want something like: if "%config%"=="calmira" copy calmira.ini c:\windows\system.ini if "%config%"=="progman" copy progman.ini c:\windows\system.ini If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2Go

You could also have, eg 2 copies of windows installed, and then use a batch file to update the path and load windows. An other alternative, is to use a command-line ini-editor (eg ini.exe), that will allow you to swap paths etc. There's a very good one called manitini at http://www.neatech.ch/maintini/ The dream you dream alone is only a dream, The dream we dream together is reality.